What if the Brazilian Military Dictatorship never happened?

As someone from Pernambuco, the Arraes myth comes in part due the dictatorship (with the iconic refusal to resign in the face of the coupists) so no coup he is less of a icon and more of the usual Coronel, grand but not legendary, he could try a national shot later, who knows.
Well, the Acordo do Campo (extension of labor rights to the countryside, much to the ire of the usineiros) will still be a thing, and with Jango remaining in power he would be directly benefited by the Basic Reforms, particularly the agrarian one.

Also, last but definitely not least:

Give him an extra year in power and something like either Jango or Brizola not being allowed to run (he was married to Goulart's sister), and I could see PTB allowing him to lead a ticket. His running mate would have to be a moderate (Tancredo Neves?) though.
 

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Gukpard said:
"Bobby Kennedy spoke with Goulart for 3 hours in that meeting. Bobby Kennedy mentioned many problems from the US point of view: the presence of Communists, ultranationalists (read nationalists), extreme leftists (read leftists) and anti-Americans in Goulart's government. He also spoke of the expulsion of the Peace Corps from a Brazilian state and Goulart's alleged lack of support for the Alliance for Progress...""...He brought up the expropriation of an ITT subsidiary in Rio Grande do Sul (by Governor Leonel Brizola) and the possibility of Brazil exchanging one hundred helicopters from Poland for coffee.""...Later, Bobby compared Goulart to Jimmy Hoffa, the powerful leader of the Teamsters Union in the US, with whom he had clashed in a Congressional hearing in 1957, and whom he accused of corruption."

And it went worse:

"In a White House meeting on 8 March 1963, Bobby Kennedy was the advisor toughest on the Goulart government. He insisted, as he had when he met Goulart three months before, that Goulart had to make adjustments to the economy being demanded by the US, and remove anti-US and leftist politicians from his cabinet. He said, ‘they're going to have to do something down there … this is not something that Congress will tolerate, the American people will tolerate, or that you [President Kennedy] can tolerate’."


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Wow Robert Kennedy was a jerk being against Jango for whatever social reforms measures like that, especially considering he was considered a big social justice advocate at home. I guess it took the assassination of his brother and America starting to lose a war for him to begin to rethink things.
 
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